Mount St Lawrence

Houses within 5km of this house

Displaying 18 houses.

Houses within 5km of Mount St Lawrence

Displaying 18 houses.

House name	Description
Caherline	[The seat of the Gabbett family in the 18th and early 19th centuries]. Lewis refers to its occupation by a farmer and Griffith's Valuation records Thomas Barry as resident in the early 1850s when the buildings were valued at £16. The original house is still extant though with some modifications. It is now the home of the O'Grady family.
Highpark	A property in the possession of the Gabbett family from the early 18th century. Described in the Ordnance Survey Name Book as having a "decayed appearance", this three-storied house was built between 1759 and 1789. The house, valued at £10, was vacant at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It is still extant.
Ballyvorneen	This house is marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map at the site of a castle. Described as a "dairyman's house" at the time of Griffith's Valuation and held by William and Thomas Gabbett, younger brothers of Joseph Gabbett of High Park, in fee. The buildings were valued at £15. The house no longer exists.
Caherconlish House	Lewis describes this house in the following terms "Near the town stands Cahirconlish House, a handsome modern residence, erected near the site of the old family mansion, by the proprietor, Major Wm Wilson." The Ordnance Survey Name Book dates this house to about 1789 and it was three storeys high. Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to a residence of Mr. Wilson at Caherconlish. A small drawing of the house is to be found on Map 16 H 32 (13) in the National Library of Ireland. This house was valued at £40 at the time of Griffith's Valuation and was held by Charles Monck Wilson in fee. Daniel Fitzgerald Gabbett, MP, was recorded as the owner in 1906, though he himself had died in 1898. At the time of the Irish Tourist Association survey 1942 Caherconlish House is described as a Creamery. The surveyor writes that a fine Adams ceiling in the house was destroyed by an accidental fire in 1925. Caherconlish is no longer extant.
Ballynagarde	The seat of the Croker family from early in the 18th century. Bence Jones writes that the house was built in 1774 and that it became a ruin during the 20th century. It was valued at £70 in the mid 19th century and held in fee by John Croker. The seat of H.S. Croker in 1894. By 1906 this house was valued at £119+ and was occupied by Courtenay Croker. The Irish Tourist Association Survey records the occupation of this house by the Defence Forces in 1942. It is now a ruin.
Caherelly Castle/Coole House	Lewis refers to Mrs Furnell’s residence as "a neat building in the cottage style" situated near Longford bridge. The substantial house marked at this location on the first Ordnance Survey map is named Caherelly Castle but on later maps is recorded as Coole House. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book call it Cahir Elly Castle or Coole House. It was valued at £30 and occupied by Michael Furnell who held it in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation. This house may have been known as Caherelly Grange in the last decades of the 19th century (see ''Burke's Irish Family Records''). The house is no longer extant but the outbuildings still remain.
Caherelly Cottage/Caherelly Castle	A plaque records the building of this house in 1800 by William Hannan. Lewis refers to the residence of Mr Hannan in well planted grounds. The Ordnance Field Name Book refers to Cahir Elly Cottage as the residence of William Hannan. Marked as Caherelly Cottage on the first Ordnance Survey map, this house was located close to the ruins of an old castle and is now known as Caherelly Castle. Valued at £12 in the early 1850s and occupied by Michael Furnell who held it in fee. It later became the home of Michael Furnell's brother Frederick, an army surgeon. David O'Shaughnessy's interest in this house was advertised for sale in October 1853.
Boskill	Lewis records B. Friend residing at Baskill in 1837. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book records two houses. Boskill House the original residence of the Frends dating back to the 17th century and located at the northern point of the townland. It was at the end of the 1830s a thatched house which had been converted into a stable. Boskill Lodge (marked on the first Ordnance Survey map as Boskill House) was built in 1800 by Captain Benjamin Frend, at a cost of about £600. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Benjamin Friend junior occupied this house which was valued at £18. In 1906 a mansion house in the townland of Templemichael valued at £30.15 shillings was the residence of Edith M. Minchin and Agnes E. Rose. The Frends and the Roses of Ardhu House were related. The Irish Tourist Association surveyor in 1942 records the burning of this house in the Civil War and that there was "no trace of the house now".
Edwardstown	Edwardstown was the residence of John Russell in the early 1850s held by him in fee and the buildings were valued at £18+.
Glen View	John Russell was the occupier of a house at Glen at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He held the property from Miss Abigail Briscoe and the buildings were valued at £15+. Slater also recorded Glenview as the seat of John Russell in 1894. This house is now demolished.
Ahabeg	Built in 1827 this house was the home of the Rose family in the 19th century. It was occupied by Michael Lloyd who held it from Counsellor Richard Rose circa 1840. The residence of Richard Rose held by him in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation and valued at £18+. Aghabeg is still extant and well-maintained.
Williamstown Castle	Lewis refers to Williamstown Castle having been restored by the Messrs Pain, architects. In the early 1850s John Croker is recorded as the occupier, holding the property in fee. The buildings were valued at £33. It is now a ruin.
Rockstown House	A building valued at £18 at the time of Griffith's Valuation, occupied by Chartres Brew Maloney and held from James Kelly. Chartres Brew Molony, second son of Patrick Molony of Cragg married his cousin Alice, daughter of James Barry of Rockstown, in 1841.Rockstown Castle was inherited by James Kelly's grandson, Basil James Kelly, in the 20th century and was left by him to his nephew Derrick Morley in 1945. It is still extant
Sandville	The home of the Barry family in the 18th and 19th centuries, the house became known as Sandville in the early 19th century. The Ordnance Survey Name Book dates the building 1799. John Barry occupied this house on the Kelly estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the buildings were valued at £26. John Grene Barry was resident in the 1870s and 1880s. Buildings are still extant at the site.
Friarstown (Grange)	At the time of Griffith's Valuation this house was held from James Kelly by James H. Barry, the buildings were valued at £12. In 1906 Bazil R. Kelly held about 400 acres of untenanted land and buildings valued at £12 at Friarstown. This house is still extant.
Ballymacreese	A residence of the Greene family in the 18th century and noted by Wilson as the seat of Mr. Greene in 1786. The Ordnance Survey Name Books refer to this house as the seat of Mr James Shine, rebuilt in 1829 at a cost of £900. Occupied by James Shine in the early 1850s and held from the representatives of Frederick Lloyd. The buildings were valued at £26. Jeremiah Shine of Ballymacreese owned 79 acres in the county in the 1870s. The house is still extant and well-maintained.
Rockview	A 2 storey house on the Croker estate, built in 1837 for £400, it was occupied by George Peacock circa 1840 and in the early 1850s when it was valued at almost £12. There is still an extant house at the site.
Cahernarry House	Originally a Cripps residence, occupied by a member of the Crips family in the 1770s and 1780s and by J. Cripps in 1837. By the time of Griffith's Valuation Henry Watson was in residence. The house was valued at £8. It is not visible on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s. Modern farm buildings occupy the site now.